Baylor’s Biletnikoff Award-winning wide receiver Corey Coleman will miss the Russell Athletic Bowl against North Carolina. Coleman will be undergoing a surgical procedure to address a sports hernia, Baylor head coach Art Briles announced Saturday.Briles also confirmed running back Shock Linwood (knee) and quarterback Jarrett Stidham (ankle) will be out for the bowl game.

Briles said Coleman was injured before Baylor’s game against Oklahoma on November 14. That would help explain why Coleman’s production took a nosedive in the final month of the season, although Baylor’s quarterback situation exploded as well. After putting together 216 receiving yards and two touchdowns against Kansas State, Coleman failed to catch more than five passes in a game or accumulate more than 77 yards in a game. He has not scored a touchdown since that Nov. 5 Kansas State game.

The loss of Stidham for the bowl game was not a surprise, as Briles previously commented that Chris Johnson will be expected to start the bowl game anyway and he was not optimistic about Stidham being read due to an ankle injury. Briles did say the 2015 season-opening starter, Seth Russell, should be good to go for spring football at Baylor, which is very encouraging news.

Heisman Trophy winner Derrick Henry and runner-up Christan McCaffrey were named First Team All-Americans by Sporting News on Tuesday. The Crimson Tide and Cardinal running backs nudged out Florida State’s Dalvin Cook and LSU’s Leonard Fournette for the first-team honors, while both Cook and Fournette filled the running back slots on the second team. Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson, a finalist for the Heisman Trophy, landed on the second team from Sporting News, with Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield winning first team honors.

The full Sporting News All-American teams are listed below. The Sporting News All-American team is the fourth All-American team to be revealed that is used to make up the NCAA’s consensus All-American team. The previous three are the Walter Camp Football Foundation, the Associated Press and the Football Writers Association of America. Tomorrow, the American Football Coaches Association will release the fifth and final All-American list recognized by the NCAA for its consensus list.

Joining Henrey as first team All-American running backs are Dalvin Cook of Florida State and Leonard Fournette of LSU. Fournette and Henry each earned first-team honors from the AP as well, while Cook made the second team cut.

Alabama running back Derrick Henry had a big night at the 2015 Home Depot College Football Awards Show in Atlanta Thursday. The two Heisman finalists walked away with some of the top honors of the night, with Henry being named the Maxwell Award and Walter Camp Player o the Year winner and the Doak Walker Award winner as the nation’s best running back.

Henry became the first running back to win the Maxwell Award since 2002 when Penn State’s Larry Johnson won the award. He is the second player from Alabama to win the award in the past three seasons, joining quarterback A.J. McCarron in 2013. McCarron was Alabama’s first Maxwell Award winner. Earlier in the evening, prior to the award show, Henry was also named the Walter Camp Player of the Year, giving Henry three individual awards by the end of the night.

Henry was not the only Heisman finalist to take home some hardware Thursday night. Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson was named the Davey O’Brien Award winner as the nation’s top quarterback. The Davey O’Brien Award winner has gone on to win the Heisman Trophy each of the past five seasons and all but one season since 2006. Stanford’ Christian MCaffrey was up for a handful of honors but did not take any awards home.

Odds are we may not see too many seasons in which Texas beats two top 15 teams away from home in the same season and does not go to a bowl game. Folks, you may have just witnessed history.

Texas (5-7, 4-5) ended a losing season without a bowl game with a rather important victory in Waco by upsetting No. 12 Baylor (9-3, 6-3 Big 12) with a 23-17 victory that nearly got away from them in the second half. Texas built a 20-0 lead at halftime but Baylor managed to make a run at the Longhorns despite having their third-string quarterback knocked out of the game and having to run the offense with a wide receiver.

Baylor lost third-string quarterback Chris Johnson during the game, with Johnson having to leave the game due to concussion symptoms. That left Baylor without a passing option, which is a rare occurrence for Art Briles. Junior wide receiver Lynx Hawthorne took over in the emergency situation, and Baylor nearly escaped with the win. Hawthorne completed 10 of 22 pass attempts for 64 yards and was picked off twice.

Texas quarterback Tyrone Swoopes completed 12 of 19 pass attempts for 151 yards and a touchdown and he added 52 rushing yards and a touchdown on the ground to help Texas score the upset. Star Baylor wide receiver Corey Coleman, who was recognized on the field before the game along with Baylor’s seniors, caught seven passes for 49 yards.

Texas now enters the pool of 5-7 teams that will hope to get an invite to the postseason fun. That invitation is not likely at all to reach Austin though with a number of teams already sitting in front in the waiting line based on APR scores. So the focus for Charlie Strong will now shift to 2016, and it should be a critical one for Strong. He will do so with a bit of a signature win, or at least one to build momentum moving forward.

Over the more recent years Texas has seen everyone catch up or pass them among power conference threats, including Baylor. To be able to end a season with a win against Baylor, even if it was largely because Baylor was playing with a wide receiver under center, should be used as fuel for the offseason for Strong and the Longhorns. Texas is the program that must catch the competition right now, but at least they can sell the idea they can compete on the same field and start to try winning back momentum in the state. Maybe this was a fluke, but Texas should not treat it as such.

With the loss, Baylor’s chances of playing int he New Years Six lineup have been shredded. With Baylor out, and Oklahoma very likely to be selected to play in the College Football Playoff, the Big 12 will be expected to be represented in the Sugar Bowl by Oklahoma State. Baylor’s bowl destination will fall outside the New Years Six with the Alamo Bowl and Russell Athletic Bowl possibilities.